Helmet Cole said:thenabster said:Helmet Cole said:Just found an email for uefa and emailed them re my concerns about the PSG deal and the fact that it could open the floodgates for teams with no history to ruin football by buying success and got an 'out of office' automated reply - it does promise a response in the New Year though.
for teams with no history to ruin football by buying success
What is this supposed to mean ?
I mean like those twats who won the title last year with a fucking last minute goal from a foreign player on a million pounds a week, while the rags were consigned to joint champions with their team of local lads playing for a bag of chips and a lift home
It's an absolute fucking disgrace what people like Dehaene and others came out with. I hope, behind the scenes, we told them to button it.jrb said:It's now Christmas Eve and Platini, Jean-Luc Dehaene, nor UEFA have made any comment so far.
May I just remind you all once again. If you haven't seen the video click on the link and watch it.
Please remember who is being interviewd by the BBC and his comments.
Compare and contrast.
Uefa boss to scrutinise Manchester City's Etihad deal <a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/14490740" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/14490740</a>
Hope so mate the double standards at the minute are a fucking joke, re-run the rags game yesterday with us being them in your head, how would it have been reported?Prestwich_Blue said:It's an absolute fucking disgrace what people like Dehaene and others came out with. I hope, behind the scenes, we told them to button it.jrb said:It's now Christmas Eve and Platini, Jean-Luc Dehaene, nor UEFA have made any comment so far.
May I just remind you all once again. If you haven't seen the video click on the link and watch it.
Please remember who is being interviewd by the BBC and his comments.
Compare and contrast.
Uefa boss to scrutinise Manchester City's Etihad deal <a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/14490740" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/14490740</a>
"In 1994, Dehaene ordered the unilateral withdrawal of Belgian troops from Rwanda, thus lifting the last barrier to the genocide of Tutsis. During questions from the Belgian parliamentary commission into this decision he repeatedly acknowledged no regrets about the decision." He's very quiet about that too these days.Prestwich_Blue said:It's an absolute fucking disgrace what people like Dehaene and others came out with. I hope, behind the scenes, we told them to button it.jrb said:It's now Christmas Eve and Platini, Jean-Luc Dehaene, nor UEFA have made any comment so far.
May I just remind you all once again. If you haven't seen the video click on the link and watch it.
Please remember who is being interviewd by the BBC and his comments.
Compare and contrast.
Uefa boss to scrutinise Manchester City's Etihad deal <a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/14490740" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/14490740</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1280337/qatari-investment-in-paris-saint-germain-praised-by-lyon-president?cc=5901" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story ... nt?cc=5901</a>Lyon chief: PSG investment good for French football
Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas has praised the massive investment of Paris Saint-Germain's Qatari owners, hailing them 'the saviours of French football'.
Since taking charge at the Parc des Princes in summer 2011, Qatar Sports Investments has pumped some €250 million into the PSG squad with stars like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva ensuring full houses wherever Carlo Ancelotti's men play.
Additionally, the money paid for the rights to show Ligue 1 up to 2016 by BeIn Sport, the TV channel set up in France by Qatari-backed Al-Jazeera, has helped give clubs in the top flight a solid financial platform, according to Aulas.
"Thanks to their investment, the Qataris have saved French football. Not necessarily clubs like Lyon and Marseille, well-structured clubs with solid shareholders. But they have saved middling clubs like Saint-Etienne, who - without them - would have been in trouble," Aulas, 63, told Le Parisien. "Their arrival is a windfall, and not to recognise that would be stupid."
It is not the first time in recent weeks Aulas has given his thoughts on his own club's title rivals. After having told the Qatari owners he "would not change anything" when coach Carlo Ancelotti's post looked in jeopardy, Aulas became embroiled in a war of words with PSG sporting director Leonardo following a clash between Zlatan Ibrahimovic and OL defender Dejan Lovren.
Though Aulas remains overwhelmingly positive about the meteoric progress made by the club from the capital, PSG's decision to recruit exclusively from Serie A last summer is something which the OL supremo would like to see change.
"The only [criticism] that could be made is that they don't buy players on the French market as we did when we were more economically powerful," Aulas said. "I think PSG's success is a good thing, which is going to bring points for France in the UEFA rankings. The real policy to follow is to push PLM [Paris, Lyon and Marseille, the current top three] to make the league attractive."